[sage-devel] Re: Changes in supported platforms

2012-01-17 Thread Emil Widmann
Just a suggestion: Would it make sense to lift the Virtual Image from "Expected to work" to "Fully supported"? At least it is the main distribution for windows and also any other plattforms whith no existing native port. It should be possible to set up a VirtualBox machine on one of the build bots

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changes in supported platforms

2012-01-17 Thread Julien Puydt
Le 17/01/2012 17:20, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit : On 2012-01-17 17:09, kcrisman wrote: On some very old Mac machines it is possible to build and run tests with as little as .5 GB, with additional swap, because we do not have to build ATLAS on that platform - but there are no guarantees. You actuall

[sage-devel] Re: Changes in supported platforms

2012-01-17 Thread kcrisman
On Jan 17, 11:20 am, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2012-01-17 17:09, kcrisman wrote:> On some very old Mac machines it is > possible to build and run tests > > with as little as .5 GB, with additional swap, because we do not have > > to build ATLAS on that platform - but there are no guarantees. >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changes in supported platforms

2012-01-17 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-01-17 17:09, kcrisman wrote: > On some very old Mac machines it is possible to build and run tests > with as little as .5 GB, with additional swap, because we do not have > to build ATLAS on that platform - but there are no guarantees. You actually manage to pass "ptestlong" on a machine wi

[sage-devel] Re: Changes in supported platforms

2012-01-17 Thread kcrisman
On Jan 17, 9:03 am, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > I have edited the supported platforms page to reflect the following, > seehttp://wiki.sagemath.org/SupportedPlatforms > > * Increased needed diskspace to 3GB. > > * Changed phrase about memory to "It is recommended to have at least 2 > GB of RAM (you

[sage-devel] Re: Changes in supported platforms

2012-01-17 Thread Emil Widmann
on the webpage it says: Microsoft Windows VMware images can be downloaded from http://www.sagemath.org/download-windows.html These should be reliable, though we do not test these prior to releasing Sage. Use VirtualBox instead of VMware? There has been a lot of confusion about those two programs

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Changes in supported platforms

2012-01-17 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-01-17 15:12, Simon King wrote: > openSUSE 12.1 Added "openSUSE 12.1" to the expected-to-work list. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this

[sage-devel] Re: Changes in supported platforms

2012-01-17 Thread Simon King
Hi Jeroen, On 17 Jan., 15:03, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > * Completely removed "openSUSE 11.2 and 11.3 are known not to work > currently, though these issues should be fixed for Sage 4.6." as I don't > know the current status of this. The current status is: Sage works out of the box on openSUSE, sin